The Acadians of Madawaska, Maine - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1177117169 ISBN 13 : 9781177117166

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The Acadians of Madawaska. If one examines on the map the vast and irregular outlines of the State of Maine, he will discern that its northeasterly boundary is formed in part by the river St. madawaska. John flowing in a wide sweep from the mouth of the St. Francis river to a point three miles west of Grand Falls. In its progress along this curve, the river winds its way for the most part between high, wooded hills which gi way where streams enter to alluvial plains, and, thrown back by the massive rock gorge at Grand Falls, it has spread out and formed in the course of time extensive intervales enriched by the periodical overflow. This long, narrow valley is fringed on both sides oi the St. John with a line of farms which extend almosl continuously throughout the 90 miles of its length, and though the line gathers in some two or three places into the semblance of a town, it is ordinarily a thin, double line of habitation hemmed in behind by vast forests. On tin Canadian side a lazy railroad creeps up the river for 70 miles or so, but on the American side there is no railroad above Van Buren, the hast remote town of the valley, and this inroad is of very recent date. Xot a bridge crosses the St. John throughout the long sweep of the river, and excepting in the towns mentioned the stores can almost be counted on the fingers. It is a country of rugged and picturesque scenery, small houses and huge barns, and little modern comfort, given over almosl entirely to agriculture. The region takeits name, Madawaska, from a -mall river which falls into the Si. John mileabove Grand Tall-, and has been occupied Bince 1785 by Acadians refugees from the expulsion of 1755, and their descendants.
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• ISBN 10: 1177117169
• ISBN 13: 9781177117166
• Reliure: Broché